(03-13-2022 08:13 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Keep telling yourself that to try and hide the right-ward lunge of the actual Republican candidates being nominated.

What right-ward lunge? On what issue or issues have republicans moved significantly to the right from what were mainstream positions 30, 40, 50, or 60 years ago?

The lunge that has taken place has been to the left, by the democrats.

Quote:No way current Republicans support things like massive government spending on research/space exploration and other government actions (like mass transit), the Peace Corps, increasing the minimum wage, new civil rights legislation, and more.

Republicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in greater percentages than democrats. Republicans have pretty consistently supported defense and space to a greater extent than democrats. What republicans do not support is massive socialist/communist redistribution of income and wealth--and neither did JFK.

Quote:Dems are clearly not a party that only wants to raise taxes - they are looking to raise taxes explicitly on the wealthiest individuals in the country,

Who are precisely the people that JFK wanted to lower their taxes.

Quote:JFK clearly believed in the power of a big federal government - what Reps even think government has a role to play in helping people? It’s currently a party based on the idea that government is the problem and nothing else.

Neither JFK nor either republicans or democrats in the 1960s supported anything even remotely approaching the gargantuan excess of government that exists today.

Republicans believe that in many cases the best thing government can do to help people is to GTF out of the way and stay TF out of the way.